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D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930). Amores. 1916.

17. The Prophet

AH, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom

The shrouded mother of a new idea, men hide their faces,

Cry out and fend her off, as she seeks her procreant groom,

Wounding themselves against her, denying her fecund embraces.